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Hate to break it to you but most of the people posting on politics this weekend weren't new. The one posting that got me annoyed (now dead) was posted by someo
by TomOfTTB 17y ago
Hate to break it to you but most of the people posting on politics this weekend weren't new. The one posting that got me annoyed (now dead) was posted by someone with 11,000+ karma points.
So I believe the issue is more people getting overly emotional than it is newbies not knowing the guidelines
- chipsy 17y agoOld timers acting out because of their xxx karma and ancient join date giving a perceived right are actually a bigger problem than newcomers who obviously don't know the rules. For a while I played a game where I restarted new accounts from zero every time I managed to get a negative-scoring comment because it forced me to work "from within" and gain support for all of my views, rather than to post any screed I wanted. I haven't done that in a while, it might be fun to try again.
- ericd 17y agoI think that the recent political submissions are a bit of an exception in that they are directly relevant to a lot of startup owners (and businesses in general) in the US. A discussion of the merits or what the bill should have been doesn't really have a place here, whereas a discussion of the effects it will have on our businesses does. Unfortunately it's too easy to fall into the former (I am guilty of this). Hopefully people are downvoting those.